Lesbian history

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Pre modern (before year 1800) / Pre-moderno (antes del año 1800) / Pre-moderne (avant l'an 1800) / Pre-moderne (prima dell'anno 1800)

Pre-modern - images / Pre-moderno - imágenes / Pre-moderne - images / Pre-moderne - immagini

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  new kingdom, 18th dinasty, 1480-1390 BC, Theban necropolis at Egyptian museum of Turin, Italy
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  two women at Suburban Baths (Pompeii)
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  two men with two women at Suburban Baths (Pompeii)
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  Zoan-Andrea (1464-1526), Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving.
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  Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.
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  Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.
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  Zeus, disguised as Diana, rapes Callisto. This is the only openly lesbian Greek myth.
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  Hendrick Goltzius (1581-1617), Justice and Prudence kiss each other.
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  Hendrick Goltzius (1581-1617), Concordia and Peace kiss each other.
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  same-sex couples Fauna and Faunus at district court (Amtsgericht) in Wismar, Germany
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  by Hans Kels the Elder ( carving : workshop of Jörg Breu the Elder ), design attributed to Geor Hörmann, dated 1537. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
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  Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing
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  Wolfgang Heimbach, Damen baden im Fluss, 1640
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  The birth of Bacchus by Master of Hovingham
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  Gérard Lairesse, Diana e Callisto.
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  Jacopo Amigoni (1675 - 1752), Giove e Callisto (ca. 1740/1750).
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  Pan and Syrinx by François Boucher (1759)
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  slepping Baccantes surprised by satyrs by François Boucher
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  Pan and Syrinx (1762)
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  Diane sortant du bain by Francois Bouche
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  Jupiter and Kallisto by Francois Bouche
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  Jupiter and Kallisto by Francois Bouche
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  Summer anagoria by François Boucher
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  Leda and swan by François Boucher
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  La Toilette de Venus by François Lemoyne
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  Woman Bathing by François Lemoyne
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  Mary Hamilton
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  Three women. 18th century engraving, created for a male audience.
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  Four women. 1797
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  Illustration from Le paysan ét la paysane pervertis; ou Les dangérs de la ville, 1787, by Restif de La Bretonne (1734-1806).
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Pre-modern - people / Pre-moderno - gente / Pre-moderne - personnes / Pre-moderne - persone

Sappho / Saffo / Safo

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  Sappho reading a poem. Attic vase, 440-430 bC.
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  Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.
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  Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.
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  The so-called "Sappho". Fourth style Roman fresco, 1st century AD; Pompeii, Region VI, Insula occidentalis.
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  Sappho as seen by Raphael, circa 1510. Rome, Palazzi vaticani, stanza della segnatura.
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  Sappho by Claude Ramey, 1801.

Christina of Sweden / Cristina de Suecia / Christine de Suède / Cristina di Svezia

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  Sébastien Bourdon: Christina of Sweden.
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  Sébastien Bourdon: Christina of Sweden (1653).
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  Christina of Sweden - engraving by Quillet.
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  Queen Christina's grave, in San Pietro, Roma.
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  Monument in the Musei Capitolini in Roma.
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  Monument in the Musei Capitolini in Roma.
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  Sébastien Bourdon (±1653): Ebba Sparre (1626-1662) lady-in-waiting to and intimate companion of Sweden's Queen Christina

Aphra Behn

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  Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670
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  Oroonoko

Archduchess Marie Christine and Princess Isabella of Parma

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1800-2000

1800-2000 - facts / 1800-2000 - hechos / 1800-2000 - factes / 1800-2000 - fatti

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  by Hokusai ca. 1814
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  Johann Heinrich Füssli before 1825
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  Courbet - The Sleep
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  Courbet - The Sleep
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  ca. 1840
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  ca. 1840
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  Anonym, c.1855
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  Carmilla the 1. lesbian vampire story, 1872
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  Damned Women, modeled by Auguste Rodin c. 1885
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), The sofa Sun.
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  Toulouse-Lautrec, The two girlfriends, (ca. 1894-5).
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Two girlfriends.
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Two women.
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    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Two half-naked women.
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), At the Moulin rouge (1892)
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1892)
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1893)
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1893)
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), The kiss, (1892).
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  Cha-U-Kao by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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  May Belfort by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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  Wilhelm von Plueschow (1852-1930), Two women, Rome, ca. 1900.
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  by Marcel Chatelain, ca. 1904
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  Cover of "Vanity Fair" Magazine "Bifurcated Girls" issue, cover publication date June 6 1903
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  Allegorical statues in Vienna.
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  Allegorical statues in Vienna.
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  1883
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  a lesbian brothel, 1884
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  Félicien Rops, circa 1890
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  Potok (1903) by Maxmilián Pirner
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  A Strange Railroad Wreck, 1904
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  An Anglo-American Alliance, 1906
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  Egon Schiele, Frauenpaar, 1915.
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  "Lesbian couple". From a criminological book, 1915.
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  Deux jeunes Femme couchées by Félix-Jacques Moulin 1850
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  by Jules Richard
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  Egon Schiele, Hochendes frauenpaar, 1918.
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  Anonym, c.1920
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  by Gerda Wegener 1925
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  The Well Of Loneliness, 1928
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  A 1928 issue of German lesbian paper "Die Freundin".
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  German lesbian paper Liebende Frauen with advertising of the Book Berlins lesbische Frauen by Ruth Margarete Roellig, 1928
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  The black triangle, used in nazi lagers for "asocial" people, is now a widespread lesbian symbol.
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  Women's Barracks by Tereska Torrès
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  one example of Lesbian pulp fiction cover
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  Lesbians, HIV and safer sex (1992)

1800-2000 - People / 1800-2000 - Personas / 1800-2000 - Personnes / 1800-2000 - Persone

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  Sappho in a 1883 engraving.
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  Scandalous rumor about Emma Hamilton, early 1800s
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  Anne Lister (1791-1840)
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  American actress Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) in 1857.
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  Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876)
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  Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876)
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  American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). She was Charlotte Cushman's lover.
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  Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)
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  Vida Dutton Scudder was an American educator and writer
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  Käthe Schirmacher lover of Klara Schleker, both were german feminist with racist ideas
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  French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) around 1864.
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  Sarah Bernhardt
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  Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in 1879. She was longtime companion to French sculptor Louise Abbéma.
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  Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) by Giovanni Boldini , ca. 1880.
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  Sarah Bernhardt, 1891
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  Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, 1891.
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  French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in male clothes in L'Aiglon (1910).
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  British writer Vernon Lee (i.e. Violet Paget, 1856–1935).
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  British writer Vernon Lee (i.e. Violet Paget, 1856–1935) in 1889.
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  Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) in 1892.
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  Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) in 1902.
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  Liane de Pougy (1869-1950) (1902).
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  Liane de Pougy par Nadar.
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  Liane de Pougy par Nadar.
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  Paul César Helleu (1859-1927), Liane de Pougy, (1908 ca.).
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  german feminist writer Johanna Elberskirchen (1905 ca.)
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  Male impersonator Hetty King (Winifred Emms, 1883-1972) in 1908.
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  Hetty King (Winifred Emms, 1883-1972) in 1910.
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  Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) in 1910.
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  Léon Bakst, La danseuse Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) en Hélène de Sparte, 1912.
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  Openly lesbian German singer Claire Waldoff in 1914.
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  Renée Vivien, ca. 1909.
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  Isadora Duncan. She was bisexual. Her best documented love affair is the one with writer Mercedes de Acosta.
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  Mercedes de Acosta
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  Isadora Duncan and Sergei Yesenin, 1923.
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  Russian writer Zinaida Gippius (Зинаида Николаевна Гиппиус, 1869-1945), by Léon Bakst (1906).
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  (София Яковлевна Парнок) Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok's birthhouse .
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  a married Transman,(1830? – 25 August 1901) Edward De Lacy Evans,
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  Dame Ethel Smyth in 1901. A composer, a stern feminist, Smyth was also for a time Virginia Woolf's lover.
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  Selma Lagerlöf (1908), painted by Carl Larsson.
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  Margaret Damer Dawson and Mary Allen
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  Chishō Takaoka in 1920
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  Frida Kahlo nel 1932.
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  Frida Kahlo in 1932.
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  American writer Gertrude Stein, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1934.
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  Gertrude Stein photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1935.
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  Gertrude Stein photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1935.
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  Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1949.
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  Elsie de Wolfe circa 1917
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  Mary Canedy Burt
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  Josephine Baker
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  Josephine Baker photographed by Carl Van Vechten, October 20, 1949
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  an agender couple Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore
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  Yuasa Yoshiko (湯浅 芳子)
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  Pia Beck
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  Pia Beck vs Anita Bryant
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  Kay Lahusen is the first openly gay American woman photojournalist and partner of Barbara Gittings over 46 years
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  Agatha Barbara ( 3rd President of Malta )

21st century / Siglo XXI / 21me siècle / 21mo secolo

• See also: Category:LGBT history in the 21st century
• See also: Category:Lesbian couples.
• See also: Category:Bisexual women.
• See also: Category:Gay Pride.

21st century - facts / Siglo XXI - hechos / 21me siècle - facts / 21mo secolo - fatti

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  La Lista lesbica italiana al Bari Pride (Italy, 2003).
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  Arcilesbica - at lesbian and gay pride in Grosseto (Italy, 2004).
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  "Dykes on bykes" at San Francisco march, 2005.
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  "Dykes on bykes" at the Icelandic lesbian and gay pride march.
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  "Dykes on bykes" at the Icelandic lesbian and gay pride march.
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  At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.
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  At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.
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  At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.
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  Thoko Ngubeni in her fight against all kinds of discrimination and stigmitisation. by Andrew Esiebo
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  NYC Pride Parade 2012
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  Thank Frank

21st century - people / Siglo XXI - gente / 21me siècle - gens / 21mo secolo - persone

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  Ellen DeGeneres at Emmys.
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  Openly "out" tennis champion Amélie Mauresmo in 2005.
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  Italian film-maker Gabriella Romano.
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  Chavela Vargas in 2009
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  Jeanette Winterson.
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  Chen Yu-Rong, Wang Ping
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  Judith Butler
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  Danilo Türk with his Frist Lady (Barbara Miklič Türk) and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir with her Frist Lady (Jónína Leósdóttir)
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  Lynne Brown
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  Tiina Rosenberg
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  Annamarie Jagose
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  Ulrike Lunacek
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  Aliona Polujanova

21st century - Maps / Siglo XXI - Mapas / 21me siècle - Plans / 21mo secolo - Mappe

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  Recognition of same-sex relationships: Europe
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  Recognition of same-sex relationships: North America, from Mexico north
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  Recognition of same-sex relationships: United States
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  Gay adoption: Europe
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  Gay adoption: North America